Schools increase farm-fresh lunch offerings and need more farmers to help meet the demand. When Cristi Rulen, food service director for Mason County Schools, began purchasing food from local farmers three years ago, she came to a jarring realization—why hadn’t she already been doing this? On any given school day, Mason County serves about 2,500 hot lunches to students in 10…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Leading Lenders
More than 1,000 of West Virginia’s top business leaders, entrepreneurs, and politicos all have one thing in common. They’re everywhere—in every corner of the state and every field imaginable, from manufacturing to law to arts education. They sit on boards, write books, run fundraisers, and start businesses. They could be your boss, your doctor, your accountant, or the owner of…
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Saving the Blue
Adventure· Building a Better State· Culture· Focus· History· Travel
Blue Sulphur Springs was once one of the region’s top destinations. Now the community is working to save it from ruin. We West Virginians tend to tell ourselves the same story about our past. We’re descended from hardscrabble mountain folk, we think—pioneers who settled here despite the rough terrain and hard winters. This place was a hinterlands, where no one…
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Doctor in the House
An Ivy League-educated oncologist is bringing his expertise to southern West Virginia. A thought experiment is helpful when trying to understand one of the largest, if most basic, shifts in the health care industry that’s happened in the last decade. First, think of health care as a product. Like any product, it has to be delivered to the people who…
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Living in Keyser
A native shares why her small town has been deemed the “Friendliest City in the USA.” When you cross the Memorial Bridge and drive through Keyser, you are greeted by a time-worn sign proclaiming the small town the “Friendliest City in the USA.” The sign may be showing some age after decades of service, but the friendship and welcome Keyser…
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